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2026

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Microbiology

D-Index
136
Citations
98041
World Ranking
60
National Ranking
2

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Microbiology in Germany Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Microbiology in Germany Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Microbiology in Germany Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Microbiology in Germany Leader Award

Overview

Erko Stackebrandt is affiliated with the Leibniz Institute DSMZ - German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures in Germany. Their research spans multiple fields focused on microbiology and related molecular and environmental sciences.

The primary fields of study in Stackebrandt's work include:

  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
  • Environmental Science

Within these broad areas, their research focuses on subfields such as:

  • Molecular Biology
  • Ecology
  • Cell Biology

The main topics explored in their publications cover:

  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
  • Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases
  • Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies

Recent published papers by Stackebrandt include the following, all addressing aspects of microbial naming conventions:

  • Authors Need to be Prudent When Assigning Names to Microbial Isolates, 2021, Current Microbiology
  • Authors need to be prudent when assigning names to microbial isolates, 2021, Archives of Microbiology
  • Authors need to be prudent when assigning names to microbial isolates, 2022, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

These publications indicate continuity and emphasis on naming practices within microbial taxonomy across different microbiological journals.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Stackebrandt include:

  • Juan A. Mondotte
  • Luigi Lembo Fazio
  • Mike S. M. Jetten
  • Ramon Rosselló-Mora
  • P. D. Bridge

Stackebrandt's work has appeared multiple times in key venues such as:

  • Current Microbiology
  • Archives of Microbiology
  • Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

The combination of topics, co-authors, and publication venues indicates a focus on microbial ecology, taxonomy, and molecular approaches to understanding microbial communities and their phylogeny. Stackebrandt's contributions reflect a multidisciplinary engagement with both the biological and computational aspects of environmental and genetic microbiology.

Best Publications

  • Taxonomic Note: A Place for DNA-DNA Reassociation and 16S rRNA Sequence Analysis in the Present Species Definition in Bacteriology

    E. Stackebrandt;B. M. Goebel

  • Report of the Ad Hoc Committee on Reconciliation of Approaches to Bacterial Systematics

    L. G. Wayne;D. J. Brenner;R. R. Colwell;P. A. D. Grimont

  • Nucleic acid techniques in bacterial systematics

    Erko Stackebrandt;Michael Goodfellow

  • Determination of microbial diversity in environmental samples: pitfalls of PCR‐based rRNA analysis

    Friedrich V. Wintzingerode;Ulf B. Göbel;Erko Stackebrandt

  • Taxonomic parameters revisited : tarnished gold standards

    E. Stackebrandt

  • Proposal for a New Hierarchic Classification System, Actinobacteria classis nov.

    Erko Stackebrandt;Fred A. Rainey;Naomi L. Ward-Rainey

  • Report of the ad hoc committee for the re-evaluation of the species definition in bacteriology.

    Erko Stackebrandt;Wilhelm Frederiksen;George M Garrity;Patrick A D Grimont

  • The Phylogeny of Prokaryotes

    GE Fox;E Stackebrandt;RB Hespell;J Gibson

  • Re-evaluating prokaryotic species

    Dirk Gevers;Frederick M. Cohan;Jeffrey G. Lawrence;Brian G. Spratt

  • The Genus Nocardiopsis Represents a Phylogenetically Coherent Taxon and a Distinct Actinomycete Lineage: Proposal of Nocardiopsaceae fam. nov.

    Fred A. Rainey;Naomi Ward-Rainey;Reiner M. Kroppenstedt;Erko Stackebrandt

  • Effect of genome size and rrn gene copy number on PCR amplification of 16S rRNA genes from a mixture of bacterial species

    V Farrelly;F A Rainey;E Stackebrandt

  • Georgenia ruanii sp. nov., a novel actinobacterium isolated from forest soil in Yunnan (China), and emended description of the genus Georgenia.

    Wen-Jun Li;Ping Xu;Peter Schumann;Yu-Qin Zhang;Yu-Qin Zhang

  • Polyphasic taxonomy of the genus Shewanella and description of Shewanella oneidensis sp. nov

    Kasthuri Venkateswaran;Kasthuri Venkateswaran;Duane P. Moser;Michael E. Dollhopf;Douglas P. Lies

  • XENORHABDUS AND PHOTORHABDUS SPP.: Bugs That Kill Bugs

    Steven Forst;Barbara Dowds;Noël Boemare;Erko Stackebrandt

  • An update of the structure and 16S rRNA gene sequence-based definition of higher ranks of the class Actinobacteria, with the proposal of two new suborders and four new families and emended descriptions of the existing higher taxa.

    Xiao-Yang Zhi;Wen-Jun Li;Erko Stackebrandt

  • Proteobacteria classis nov., a Name for the Phylogenetic Taxon That Includes the “Purple Bacteria and Their Relatives”

    E. Stackebrandt;R. G. E. Murray;H. G. Trüper

  • Taxonomic Dissection of the Genus Micrococcus: Kocuria gen. nov., Nesterenkonia gen. nov., Kytococcus gen. nov., Dermacoccus gen. nov., and Micrococcus Cohn 1872 gen. emend.

    Erko Stackebrandt;Cathrin Koch;Oxana Gvozdiak;Peter Schumann

  • Comparative analysis of Bacillus anthracis, Bacillus cereus, and related species on the basis of reverse transcriptase sequencing of 16S rRNA

    Carol Ash;John A. E. Farrow;Matthias Dorsch;Erko Stackebrandt

  • Introduction to the Proteobacteria

    Karel Kersters;Paul De Vos;Monique Gillis;Jean Swings

  • A phylogenetic definition of the major eubacterial taxa.

    C.R. Woese;E. Stackebrandt;T.J. Macke;G.E. Fox

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter Schumann
Peter Schumann Leibniz Association
Reiner M. Kroppenstedt
Reiner M. Kroppenstedt Leibniz Institute DSMZ – German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures
Fred A. Rainey
Fred A. Rainey University of Florida
Philip Hugenholtz
Philip Hugenholtz University of Queensland
Rüdiger Pukall
Rüdiger Pukall Leibniz Association
Manfred Rohde
Manfred Rohde Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research
Li-Hua Xu
Li-Hua Xu Yunnan University
Lynne Goodwin
Lynne Goodwin Los Alamos National Laboratory
Jonathan A. Eisen
Jonathan A. Eisen University of California, Davis
Brian J. Tindall
Brian J. Tindall Leibniz Institute DSMZ – German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures

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